Royal Danish Army

The Royal Danish Army is the army of Denmark, founded on 17 November 1614. The army was founded in the wake of the Kalmar War with Sweden, and the Danish king was commander-in-chief during the Early Modern period, leading the army during the Thirty Years' War, the Scanian War, the Great Northern War, and the Napoleonic Wars. In 1815, the army was divided into the general commands of Zealand, Funen Langeland, Jutland, and Schleswig-Holstein. Denmark was neutral from 1815 to 1940, when it was invaded by Nazi Germany; the Royal Army resisted the Wehrmacht against the king's wishes, and it was quickly defeated. The army would later be deployed in UN peacekeeping operations and in NATO interventions, fighting in the Bosnian War, the Kosovo War, the Afghanistan War, and the Iraq War. In 2017, Denmark had a military strength of 12,500 troops, 63,000 reservists, 809 tracked vehicles, and 257 wheeled vehicles.